Re: [SPAM] Re: [flexcoders] Re: decimal numbers in financial applications

[Anatole Tartakovsky]

Ryan,
With double, precision should not be an issue  - usually "money" datatype is limited to 18 digits and in most practical applications is limited to 11-12 digits. If you work with doubles (16+ correct digits) t would take quite a few operations to get precision under 12 digits. In terms of individual operations, in order to get 1 cent rounding error for the original case

 
1.9199999999999999289457264239899814128875732421875 * amount, the amount has to be over 
      50000000000000. 
 
You decide if it is practical or not 
 
Regards,
Anatole
 
On 8/17/06, ryanm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:







> Apparently you acknowledge that it would work but need to keep BigDecimal> for other reasons.>
I get the impresson that they want some calculations to be done "real time" on the client, and for that a BigDecimal object would be needed in the client as well as on the server.ryanm 

 

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